59-22 68th Road
Ridgewood | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1911
Louis Berger & Company designs 59-22 68th Road for owner Ignatz Martin
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Under new-building application NB 2-1911, Louis Berger & Company designed a row of six two-family houses, 59-18 through 59-28 68th Road, for original owner Ignatz Martin. No. 59-22 is a two-story Renaissance Revival house over a basement, faced in iron-spot brick with brownstone and limestone trim. It has a full-height rounded bay, a classical door hood with Greek key ornament and a modillioned metal cornice with festoons.
- 1911
Louis Berger & Company, Ridgewood's prolific architects, draw up the plans
The plans for this house came from Louis Berger & Company, the firm of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930. Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, trained at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings. He opened his own practice in Bushwick in 1895.
“Louis Berger & Company was the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in the Ridgewood-Bushwick area between 1895 and 1930.”
- 2014
Landmark survey records historic doors and newel posts at 59-22 68th Road
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When Central Ridgewood became a historic district in December 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that 59-22 68th Road still had its historic main-entrance doors, its historic stoop newel posts and its original cornice. The stoop railings had been replaced in metal, kickplates and house numerals added to the doors, and the brownstone basement trim resurfaced.
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